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Originally Posted by WangoTango
This kid lives on my street. In our small town of 1,300.
It would be utterly surreal for me to live in a town with 1,300 people. I'm pretty sure my townhouse development has more people than that.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
This kid lives on my street. In our small town of 1,300.
It would be utterly surreal for me to live in a town with 1,300 people. I'm pretty sure my townhouse development has more people than that.
It's wonderful. I live in a subdivision of about 25 homes, we all have acre lots. We are 10 minutes from a town of 12,000, less than 15 minutes to a City of 135,000. An hour away from the 4 largest city in North America, Toronto. Rogers just started installing fiber optic internet infrastructure. We will have real internet by March. I love having space between homes. We lived in the City before, people on top of people, no yard. The streets lined with cars. I hated it. No privacy at all.
The Summer Olympics have lost my interest. I miss the fierce competitiveness and excitement of Synchronized Swimming. The face paced action, the drama, the potential danger at the speeds as which they performed.
Yep, I lost all interest when they dropped it.
Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Someday your life will flash in front of your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.
No. It never really held much interest for me. Maybe with streaming being an option for more extensive coverage I might look for some boxing.
I remember the day when Olympic boxing was at it's best. I don't think we will ever see that again. Some of those U.S. vs Cuban rivalry matches were classic.
The Olympics stopped being compelling with the end of the Cold War IMO.
Agree. I remember people being madder than hell if an East German judge didn't give a Western athlete a high enough score for a dive or a gymnastics routine. Of course, the 1980 U.S. hockey win over the Soviets was the pinnacle Olympic event for most of us northern U.S. boys. The Olympics has not had that us vs. them feel to it since. Now it feels all it is about is finding an athlete to attach to a large corporate sales push to and that's it.
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Originally Posted by Crane Hunter
The Olympics stopped being compelling with the end of the Cold War IMO.
You can say the same thing about space exploration!
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
... i might watch something here and there, but i dont care about olympics at all untill they add a coliseum gladiatorium with the world most dangerous criminals competing for a clean sheet release back into resocialization. Also aparently skating is now a olyimpic sport, so lol.....call me when game is officially acepted, i know its been talked about. speaking of wich why is chess barred from olympics ? brain is a muscle too,its very athletic to use it. in fact im tired, im going to lay down and play some games.
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Doesn't chess already have a world tournament for its top players? Putting it in the Olympics would seem redundant and let's face it, being an Olympic event won't increase interest in the game.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Doesn't chess already have a world tournament for its top players? Putting it in the Olympics would seem redundant and let's face it, being an Olympic event won't increase interest in the game.
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My point is that outside of Russia, hardly anyone is going to bother watching a televised chess match. Certainly not enough to satisfy the advertisers who spend millions on ads during the Olympic game airings.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
The Olympics shouldn't be a collection of things that people can turn in to a competition. Otherwise why not make pinball an Olympic sport? Bass fishing? RC plane racing?
In my view it should be limited to athletic competitions, and I'd even advocate for the removal of any competition that determines the winner by judging, with perhaps the exception of boxing. If it can't be decided by a score, a distance, a time or this sort of thing than I'd like to see it gone. Judges awarding scores with any and all inherent bias (whatever that may entail) seems a poor way to decide any competition, and it's proven so countless times in the past. Competitions like figure skating, diving and gymnastics are marred by the way the winners are determined. Even ski jumping, which I like, has 'style' points partially used to determine a winner. Why? Who jumped the farthest? That should be the winner. All in my view of course.
No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
That’s why Synchronized Swimming was such an enthralling event. The action and high intensity of the event left you on the edge of your seat tense for the final outcome.
Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Someday your life will flash in front of your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.